Recaps

Si Ming’s performance helped trigger the destruction of a divine pillar, unleashing a monster calamity that cost thousands of lives and exposed the Remote Heaven Society’s next target. After helping Ying Zhou face his father and preparing for the Grandmaster Trial, Si Ming traveled to France with Murong Qing and Yan Jinghong.

• Ke Chajing challenged the drugged Wang brothers to a doubles match, and Nie Wanzhi later won the opening match against Linked Mountains University’s team.
• The Glacier Martial Arts School defeated Chu Gengyin’s team and qualified for the national tournament, while Si Ming and Yuezheng Qiong performed at the awards ceremony.
• The performance resonated with hidden Taicu Harmonica replicas, drawing citizens’ beliefs toward the God-Sealing Platform and causing a Divine Pillar to appear.
• Yuezheng Qiong revealed her ties to the Heaven-Defying Society and fled after destroying the pillar, while its destruction unleashed a vast monster nest and trapped the crowd.
• Si Ming and the others battled the Moth Empress, and Liu Qingqing helped Murong Qing and Hongdou wound her so Si Ming could land a powerful strike before she escaped.
• The calamity killed nearly ten thousand people, including Chu Gengyin, and Yu Shuying identified France as the Remote Heaven Society’s next target.
• Qin Wujun confronted Ying Zhou and Murong Wu, but Hualiu helped them escape through an illusion, and Si Ming later arranged for Ying Zhou to train with the Mohist Knight Guard.
• Si Ming prepared for the France mission, received improved Blazing Yang Battle Art documents, and traveled with Murong Qing and Yan Jinghong, where Cuan Er met them as their guide.

Si Ming and his allies entered France’s succession struggle, freeing Old General Wang and exposing the conflict between public duty and private loyalty. Yan Jinghong survived a series of attacks from his enemies, while Murong Qing defeated Xia Guanxue and helped him escape.

• Yan Jinghong visited Yinglan’s grave, where Ying Tao accused him of causing her death until Yinglan’s older brother explained her sacrifice and invited him to drink.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing enrolled at Codex University, where Si Ming defended a mute girl from Guan Zhen’s followers and later debated the privileges of French nobles.
• Han Hao admitted he had drawn Si Ming and Murong Qing into the third prince’s faction, and Si Ming chose to support the prince while investigating the imperial mausoleum for a sealed Divine Pillar.
• After Old General Wang received a life sentence, Si Ming persuaded allies to help free him, and the group broke into Bashidi Prison and fought their way past its guards.
• Si Ming defeated Qi Tailai, while Ling Huanxi rescued the old general, and Wang agreed to remain officially dead and retire from court after Si Ming showed him public protests over his supposed death.
• Su Yingtao challenged Yan Jinghong over Yinglan’s death, then lured him into a trap where Tang Jing attacked him with poison weakening his True Qi.
• Yan Jinghong escaped further attacks by Shentu Chuang and Xia Guanxue, but Xia trapped him in a ghostly formation until Su Yingtao and an unnamed woman intervened.
• Murong Qing defeated Xia Guanxue, broke his sword, and spared his life before telling Su Yingtao to take the injured Yan Jinghong away.

Si Ming investigated the emperor’s condition as Han Hao and Han Kun fought for the throne, while Ai Qing’s death left Su Yingbo vulnerable to the Nether Master’s offer. After Han Hao’s victory, Si Ming, Murong Qing, and He Qichang explored ancient ruins and were transported to a devastated region of the Barbarian Continent.

• Si Ming killed Tang Jing, while Su Yingbo rejected the Nether Master’s invitation and Qin Wujun accepted an invitation to the Remote Heaven Society.
• Si Ming completed the Mercury Alloy Body and agreed to investigate the emperor for Han Hao, using Murong Qing’s beauty contest appearance to establish an alibi.
• Si Ming infiltrated the palace and overwhelmed Song Taiping, who killed the incapacitated emperor and tried to blame Han Hao before Si Ming publicly accused the Second Prince and Song Taiping.
• Xiao Xuan defeated two Spirit Transformation masters, allowing Han Hao to seize the throne, cripple Han Kun, and sentence him to life in Bashidi Prison.
• Ai Qing died after doctors tried to save her, and the Nether Master offered to revive her in exchange for Su Yingbo’s help causing chaos in France.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing suspected that the Heaven-Defying Society’s true target lay outside France and decided to avoid direct involvement in Han Hao’s political reforms.
• Si Ming, Murong Qing, and He Qichang found the Primordial Non-Empty True Scripture beneath Maohuang Village, where a figure of light transported them to a ruined town beneath two moons.
• Si Ming rescued Xu Zhengyi from a Stone Dweller and survived the Mechanical Sandworm King, then learned about Martial Forms and the Netherworld Insect Princess’s devastation of the Barbarian Continent.

Si Ming and his companions escaped the Spirit Domain, returned to France, and fought the Remote Heaven Society’s forces as its schemes threatened the country. The arc left Yan Jinghong and Su Yingbo joining forces against the Nether Master, who unleashed a fiendish attack.

• Xu Zhengyi revealed that his brother-in-law had sacrificed their village to become a celebrated savior, and Si Ming learned that an Artifact Spirit had trapped them in the Spirit Domain.
• He Qichang and Murong Qing received Martial Forms from the village statue, while Si Ming obtained Jingxi Ghost and took Xu Zhengyi as his nominal disciple.
• Si Ming and Xu Zhengyi confronted the God of Blacksmiths, and Xu Zhengyi killed the priest who had hired him before the Spirit Domain collapsed.
• Si Ming returned to the mountain cavern, claimed the Vacuum Zero-Energy Furnace as his reward, and went with Murong Qing and He Qichang back to Faxian City.
• The group learned that the Remote Heaven Society had captured Yan Jinghong and Ling Huanxi and was using France’s upheaval to pursue its plans.
• Si Ming battled the God of Law while Yan Jinghong and Su Yingbo fought at the Hall of Enlightened Law, where the Nether Master intervened and attacked Yan Jinghong.
• Murong Qing helped Xia Guanxue drive back the Vicious Qi Evil Spider, and Si Ming learned that France’s supposed divine pillar was fake and not the Society’s target.
• Yan Jinghong and Su Yingbo revealed that they had staged their duel to trap the Nether Master, then fought together as he countered their ambush and unleashed Ghost Curtain Spanning the Heavens.